Missouri, Utah, and Hawai’i: c. 1940s. 10 x 12 ½ inch photo album containing approximately 225 photos measuring approximately 5 x 7 ½ inches and smaller, with some later photos (including later prints of older photos) unaffixed. Album excellent. Conditions of photos vary; generally good to excellent. Stowe Teachers College.....
United States: 1924. Felt pennant measuring 15 ½ x 43 inches. Inscribed “Hilda Colthroy” on tag. A felt pennant likely from Saint Paul’s College, an HBCU in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The college was founded in 1888 as Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School by Protestant Episcopal priest James Solomon Russell. Accredited.....
New York: 1917. Four photographs measuring appx. 8 x 10 inches. A collection of photographs showing the funeral procession of Robert Holmes, who died exchanging fire with a burglar in New York City in 1917. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes was the first African American to die in the.....
Hudson? 1938. Chip with loss to corner, discoloration to lower portion, overall good with fine contrast. An advertisement for a game between the barnstorming team the Mohawk Colored Giants and Washington D.C's Hillsdale Club, taking place in the Colonels’ stadium near Hudson, New York in 1938.[1] The Giants reformed in.....
Alaska: 1916–1917. Photo album measuring 7 ¼ x 11 ½ inches, containing 187 photos (2 unaffixed) and five loose real photo postcards, with a contemporaneous newspaper clipping. Photos approximately 3 x 4 inches, with generally excellent contrast and in Near Fine condition. A photo album belonging to brothers Ruben (1892–1984).....
Washington? 1893? 4to, lithographed wraps, 40 pp. Wraps detached, contents excellent, good overall. A scarce almanac for Washington, D.C., with the first portion containing elaborately illustrated calendars for each month, with accompanying information on natural phenomena for the months including sunrise, sunsets, etc. The second part of the book contains.....
California: c. 1915–1921. Photo album measuring 10 x 12 inches, containing approximately 360 photographs. Photos are approximately 3 ½ x 4 ½ and smaller with very good to excellent contrast. Album with wear to covers and edges of pages; photos generally excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to.....
California: 1892. Albumen photograph on board, very good contrast, mount near fine with minimal wear. A photograph of Main St. in San Andreas in 1892, showing banners for the Democratic ticket of Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson and the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid hanging above.....
Greenland and Morocco: 1950–1960. Photo album containing 115 photographs, one newspaper clipping and two pen illustrations. Photographs mainly measuring 4 x 5 inches; with Near Fine contrast. An album mainly containing photographs from Sondrestrom Air Base in Greenland. Built in 1941–1942 after Henrik Kauffmann’s treaty with the US, Sondrestrom, known.....
New York: The Resistance, 1968. Single sided flyer, 8 ½ x 11, fine condition. A flyer for a protest at the Newark Selective Service Building organized by The Resistance on May 6, 1968. The bulk of the flyer reproduces the poem “I sing of Olaf glad and big” by e.e......
New York City: January 1831. Two-page printed circular measuring 7 ¾ x 12 ¾ inches, with manuscript note from Aaron H. Palmer. Folded with some small tears, larger tear at seal not intersecting with text. Aaron Haight Palmer (1779–1863) was the director of the “American and Foreign Agency for Claims”—essentially.....
United States and Japan: 1940s. Photo album measuring 10 ½ x 13 inches containing approximately 350 photos. With four copies of Jane Whitaker’s discharge and immunization papers and the Navy’s Marching to Victory songbook, 13th printing (Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School, 1943). Album with covers detached and wear to pages; fair.....
Massachusetts and New York: April–May 1851. Sixteen letters totaling fifty-seven pages. A collection of sixteen letters written to John Hall Watson (1820–1901) from various family and friends shortly after Watson’s departure for Europe in March or April of 1851. Correspondents are his brother, Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Watson (1826–1905); family friends.....
Springfield, Illinois: William Walter, 1841. 8vo, contemporary paper covered boards, 359, xxiv pp. With auditor and Treasurer’s reports bound at rear. Boards detached, text block excellent, good overall. During the 1840–1841 session of the Illinois General Assembly, several laws were enacted concerning Nauvoo. These included legislation incorporating the city itself.....
New York and (likely) Connecticut: 1795–1809. Three letters (1795, 1795, and 1809) totalling approximately eleven pages; the larger two letters measuring approximately 7 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches and the smaller (1809) approximately 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. 1809 letter Near Fine; earlier letters having some damage especially at.....
Delaware, Ohio: Miss Mary Belle Evans, 1896. Eleven issues, 144 pp. total, paginated continuously. Martha Van Marter (1839–1931) was a Methodist Episcopal editor and missionary educator associated with the Woman’s Home Missionary Society. She edited Children’s Home Missions, a periodical designed to promote Protestant missionary education among youth and to.....
United States: 1890s. Notebook measuring 7 ¾ x 10 inches, blue cloth, 100pp with nine separate loose pages. Spine missing and covers detached, wear and stains to boards, fair to good. Contents generally very good with few pages detached. A scrapbook likely belonging to Mary Rieman Hack (1877–1928), a student.....
N.p. N.d. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches, mounted to clipped portion of album page, with portrait photographs verso. A photograph showing the interior of an exhibit car advertising the areas covered by the railway's expansion toward Puget Sound. Two agents, an O.D. Tibbetts from Chicago.....
Adak Island, Alaska: 1940s–1960s. Photo album measuring approximately 10 ½ x 8 ½ inches, containing approximately 175 photos mainly measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller. Three are souvenir photos. Album worn, warped at binding, and missing back cover, fair. Many photographs captioned recto, with generally excellent contrast; some warped.....